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View of Capri

View of Capri

30: View of Capri

August Kopisch
Breslau, now Wroclaw 1799 - 1853 Berlin

2019-S.24: Fondation Custodia
Rights held by: Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris

The scion of a bourgeois merchant family, Kopisch studied at academies in Prague and Vienna. He journeyed to Italy in 1824, and during his five-year stay, turned his attention to literature and achieved success as a writer of poetry and verse. While on a swimming expedition with his friend, painter Ernst Fries, in 1826, he is credited with rediscovering the Blue Grotto in Capri, a cave forgotten for centuries. Back in Berlin, he published a collection of translations of Italian folk songs (1838) and a translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1840).

Text written and researched by Michelle Bird National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Oil on wood panel
25.9 × 37.5 cm

Section: Capri and the Amalfi Coast

This can be found in Gallery 13: Mellon Gallery Exhibitions

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